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A little help with plt scheme
1 point by mikebn 5597 days ago | 5 comments
hello all, im a new to programming and new to lisp as well. I had found plt scheme before i found PG and arc, and was working through HTDP and the SICP. I know this board is for discussion of the arc language but I cant seem to find a new user guide to how to get mzcheme onto a web server. I have a friend who gave me some space on their server and I a have used FTP to put some basic pages up. I have gone through the general web application lesson in the plt scheme documentation. but do not yet see how to deploy it to a server. Any help (and patience) is greatly appreciated!


2 points by akkartik 5597 days ago | link

Are you having trouble installing PLT scheme on your server, or running your own code on the server after PLT is installed? I'm assuming the former in the rest.

Is it a linux server? What distribution is it running, do you know?

Download the sources for your platform here: http://download.plt-scheme.org

They'll be a self-extracting shell script that you need to run. It shouldn't need root access or anything. Then just put mzscheme somewhere in your path and you're set.

Did that make sense? Feel free to email me for more details (see my profile)

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1 point by mikebn 5597 days ago | link

The server is Apache/2.0.63 (Unix). The only info I know about the server is from an SEO site: http://www.kenkai.com/seo-tools-server-info.htm Is there a way I can get more info about the server?

I have only interacted with the server using filezilla, how do i run a script on the server?

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2 points by akkartik 5597 days ago | link

I'm not sure, and I may be wrong, but it sounds like you may not have sufficient privileges to run arbitrary programs on that server. (Sorry) Try finding out if you can access the server using ssh. If the answer is no, consider getting a server on linode.com, or on nearlyfreespeech.net. They aren't very expensive.

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1 point by mikebn 5597 days ago | link

I will ask my friend tomorrow. I have cyberduck and have used it to ssh into my jb iphone before, but alas never a server. Do you know any site that has a good tutorial for what I will need to do?

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2 points by thaddeus 5597 days ago | link

I believe it's pretty straight forward.

You hit 'open connection' make sure ssh is the selected connection type , then input the i.p. address, username & password. http://trac.cyberduck.ch/wiki/help/en

It might be best for you to have your friend guide you through the does and don'ts, given you're not so familiar.

Also reading the Linode library might help you (if your host provider runs Linux): http://library.linode.com/ And although it's specific to their VPS set up and configurations, it's still a Linux machine so you can learn quite a bit.

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